It is to be a very swagger affair, with notables from every part of Europe, and they seem determined that no one connected with a newspaper shall be admitted.

15 March, 1896, Ernest Rutherford, letter to Mary Newton
Mrs J.J. [Thomson] looked very well and was dressed very swagger and made a very fine hostess.

Mrs. Morton was well known for her Americanisms, her swagger dinner parties, and beautiful Paris gowns.

After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage

Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their lives on the shattered dreams of others.

She looked down in her half-dreaming state and thought they might be swaggers. There were lots of them that year, camped out on the riverbank netting for whitebait, then fanning out around the streets selling their catch door to door.

To be great is not […] to swagger at our footmen.

For the common Soldier when he goes to the Market or Ale-house will offer this Money, and if it be refused, perhaps he will SWAGGER and HECTOR, and Threaten to Beat the BUTCHER or Ale-Wife, or take the Goods by Force, and throw them the bad HALF-PENCE.

“They say there’s something wrong with our president!” Mr. Trump swaggered at his indoor Tulsa rally in June,[…]

It's the injustice… he is so unjust—
whiskey-blind, swaggering home at five.

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